Energy

For Electric Cars To Be Viable, Charging Station Locations Need To Be Optimized

One thing electric car owners who have lost the mystique tell you is that you live your life around them. Some report going to a store like Costco to charge their cars, they need new service panels at their house, and one owner famously blew up his Tesla w ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 6 2022 - 1:49pm

The Biden Administration Is Mandating Condensing Furnaces- That's Bad For People And The Environment

The Biden administration has issued a decree that any furnace sold after 2029 must be a "condensing" furnace, and his environmental group allies are thrilled they have locked in another win. It may not be a win for the public. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 16 2022 - 10:32am

Would Peer-To-Peer Charging Reduce Range Anxiety And Make Electric Cars Mainstream?

One of the sillier commercials for a cell phone I have seen in recent memory is some guy shaking his head in sadness that his phone is out of battery and a kindly person places her phone on his to give him a boost. They were able to use the Qi wireless cha ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 17 2022 - 2:19pm

The Big Oil Company Behind Those Lithium Mines Being Stripped For Electric Cars

When French and German intelligence agencies passed along to the U.S. CIA that Iraq was acquiring components to build weapons of mass destruction, they did it assuming President Bush was like President Clinton and such information would send America to the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 8 2022 - 9:00am

No More Ugly Solar Panels- Toward Alternative Energy That Blends Into The Landscape

Going to an area where there are a lot of wind vanes can be shocking. The noise and environmental blight for so little energy isn't worthwhile, and needing to get exemptions from endangered species laws due to deaths of avians like eagles make them a ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2022 - 10:45am

The Renewable Energy Paradox- When Everyone Gets It No One Will

Unlike US environmentalists, Belgian greens didn't flip and suddenly regard hydropower as a bad thing, they regard it as a viable part of their renewable energy strategy. All options are on the table, 50 percent of their electricity is even nuclear.   ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 29 2022 - 2:47pm

Blade Feathering May Cause A Lot Fewer Flying Creature Deaths Due To Wind Power

It's easy to get a penalty waiver from the federal government if your wind power installation kills an eagle, but if such alternative energy ever becomes more widespread, winged creature deaths of all kinds could be substantial. Current mitigation str ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2023 - 10:03am

Your Electric Car Battery Isn't Green

If you believe your electric car is not using the 80 percent of electricity generated by conventional fuels, you may also believe the high cost is worth it to save the environment. But there is no running from the environmental problems created by the cars ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2023 - 2:14pm

Solar Power May Get Environmentalists To Accept GMOs

Farms have a lot of open land and that has made them ideal for solar power installations. For example, though it is in defiance of the bucolic imagery sold by food and solar marketing groups, which show lush farms with an old tractor on one side and panels ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 9 2023 - 5:01am

Did The President Save Or Doom Alaska This Week?

President Biden issued another slap to those oil-guzzling Republicans intent on ruining Gaia, or he enraged environmentalists by letting oil-guzzling Republicans ruin bucolic Alaska, all in one day. Even in the same minute. Which was it? Neither, and that ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 17 2023 - 6:31am